For business Point of view is Walt Disney Studios remake of The Lion King one of his bek anntesten animations features in the story, was inevitable. Even the remake of Aladdin with Will Smith brought nearly $ 1 billion worldwide despite its poor execution. Even this new version of The Lion King as a live-action film is a misnomer. Director Jon Favreau has pointed this out. The new movie is not a live action movie. None of this was created with legitimate environments or cast members. To his disadvantage, all the experience was created through the computer. This is a CG animated, photorealistic movie, but still not a live action movie.

The Lion King is not a shot-for-shot remake, but rather a close-up scene remake. There are changes, new songs and additions to make up for the runtime since the original movie only ran for 88 minutes. The changes in the film have an arbitrary effect. They do not significantly enhance the experience, nor do they really contribute to a groundbreaking new performance.

For example, Favreau probably found it too cumbersome that Rafiki was more like a shaman and ran with a wand through Pride Rock, although it is well documented that primates use tools in the wild. Oddly enough, Rafiki's collaborators inexplicably appear much later in the movie when the production team was careful not to show a photorealistic CG monkey who is a shaman for a fictional version of the animal kingdom and to use a co-worker for his work. If it is unrealistic for Rafiki to have a wand as a shaman, why is it more realistic for Rafiki to keep him like the sword of Grayskull just to whip him later in the movie and use it like a trained bow staff? That does not make sense.

Another issue concerns the new movie playback of Scar's song Be Prepared, which was completely slaughtered in the new movie. There is hardly a song or a music number left. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great talent, but he hardly sings any of those numbers. He speaks most of the rhyme and then it is over. And so the Lion King 2019 feels the most. Certainly, a part of classical music keeps up. The movie has some nice photos, real eye candy and CGI magic, but it's like a lion hunted, slaughtered, stuffed and thrown up in a hunting lodge on a coat piece. There is no inner life or soul in this movie.

Yes, Favreau's team and its animators have managed to create stunning, detailed sequences. Some of them look impressive, maybe even beautiful. But what does $ 250 million really mean for premium CG images when there is no emotional connection to the story and characters on the screen? Big CG effects are not big CG effects if they affect the emotional resonance of what the movie is trying to portray. The film has almost no emotional resonance.

Nature documentaries at BBC evoke more emotions than the new Lion King which is nothing but a shell. There is no expressiveness on the faces of the characters. They speak, but their mouths barely move. Their faces are expressionless. Most of their body language does not even seem to resemble the original article. This becomes a problem when Favreau and his production team try to take on the same scenes from the original film, but the animal figures move and behave more like real animals because they are supposed to look "live-action" from a visual standpoint Style does not work.

The Lion King creates a very unpleasant, valley-like effect. The animators were unable to create living, breathing characters in a story. As a result, The Lion King loses any sense of immersion.

With regard to changes made to the film, Favreau seems to have problems creating a better atmosphere and lighting settings for the night scenes. Many of the scenes that used to take place in dark or nocturnal surroundings are brightly lit in the middle of the day. "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" takes place with Simba and Nala romping in broad daylight. Where is this romantic ambience in low light conditions? This also applies to the darker version of Pride Rock, which is controlled by Scar. Even Scar's perversion of Simba's lush and vibrant home has lost much of its dark threat.

The vocal performances of the actors are certainly not supported by the rather unobtrusive attitude conveyed throughout the experience. Granted, most actors of this type of big animated productions do their work individually, rather than playing out the other actors. But listening to the vocal performances of The Lion King the actors sound the same way: as if they were recording their lines in the cabin all by themselves. In particular, Beyonce's appearance as an adult Nala has an unnatural stiffness. Their vocal lines are definitely in a nutshell, but that's about it. John Oliver as Zazu, Billy Eichner as Timon and Seth Rogen as Pumbaa definitely sound like they're trying to spread some humor, but it's still uncomfortable to hear that their dialogues are from photorealistic animals. It's like they're talking, but they do not really believe what they say. The effect is reminiscent of the Hollywood actors who were accustomed to dubbing the 2013 Walking With Dinosaurs film, with similarly disagreeable results.

A big part of this problem is that physical character models have no life or visual expression. They can not really develop the "expressive" responses or features that are possible in an animated 2D version. The figures of The Lion King are missing an essential part of their performance. What the animators failed to do with the 2019 remake proves how crucial and important the Disney Renaissance animators were to these classic, iconic films. They have created a significant part of the "acting" and physical performance of the characters. They turned these flat, hand-drawn figures into living, breathing and indelible icons. The characters were vividly brought to life on screen.

The characters of The Lion King inspired and elicited as much emotion from the audience as any live action performance in history. If you look at the story for the new movie, there is no emotional connection between Simba, Mufasa, Timo, Pumbaa, Scar, Nala, Rafiki and Sarabi. There is no chemistry. There is no visual poetry. Therefore, these characters also have no emotional connection to the audience.

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The final score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign of the Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The Final Score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign of the Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The final score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign The Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The final score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign of the Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The final score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign The Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The final score: review torture

The 411

The redesign The Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The final score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign The Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The Final Score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign of the Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The final score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign The Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The Final Score: Review Torture

The 411

The redesign of the Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

The final score: Verification Torture

The 411

The redesign of the Lion King to photorealistic appearance was a fatal flaw. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.

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The 411: The Lion King redesigned to look photorealistic was a grave mistake. Favreau and his team have clearly tried to make a breakthrough. However, the photorealistic look of CG animated films while preserving the music, scenes and dialogues of the original only serves to underline the gap that still exists with photorealistic CGI. Is it possible that children and families are still busy? Yes. But why look at a bloated, lifeless, soulless piece of cinema when the classic, iconic original is still available? It is to be hoped that Disney will soon no longer have iconic cartoons to repeat and this phase finally ends graciously.